Who should we back in this Sunni-Shia war?

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Syria is not a struggle between tyranny and freedom but a fight for dominance between two visions of Islam

It is always illuminating to look at things through different eyes.

An intelligent and worldly-wise Muslim friend said to me of Iraq recently:
“The chief effect of the removal of Saddam Hussein was to advance the
frontier of Iran 400 miles to the west.” With the current Shia-dominated
Baghdad Government doing more and more of Tehran’s bidding, he could easily
have been talking politics. But I suspect he was also talking religion.

The dominant struggle in the Middle East is not for control of Syria; it is
the wider confrontation of which Syria should be seen as a part — the